Sunday, January 2, 2011

People think that it’s extremely important that everything about how they look is pleasant but read this from Isaiah years before Christ came:

Isaiah 53:2-5
2 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
3 He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
4 But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
5 But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
That is way different. The Father made Him just as He was and so people didn’t look up to Him, no, they looked down on Him. And Salvation came no matter how He looked.

But He wasn’t out to impress anyone, He was there to save us and He didn’t use looks to do it!

So if anyone ever questions how you look, show them this!

To think that God did all that for us should make us think harder about impressing other humans.

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